Tuesday, October 09, 2007

impatient

WHERE ARE THE RESULTS i wanna see how many finished in front of me, or of more interest: how many didn't finish. There were, over 90 people pre-registered for the 4s, and who knows maybe more showed up. I never made it out of the top 10-20 until the last stretch and the group wasn't that big at that point. Some of the guys said there was a huge crash on the first lap, sounds of breaking carbon fiber and bodies hitting the ground. I was so far up i didn't even hear it, didn't notice. Regrets filtered through my head as I was sitting at the dentist office earlier today. Thinking maybe i could have hung on a bit more on that one hill coming into town... although, for the first time in a long time. My legs are freaking toast. Cramping riding back from the car despite being loaded with electrolytes. achy crampy legs all night... It is good. It is ALL good. And no results won't make the race less successful. It was a blast.

Can't wait for Gloucester...

4 comments:

JB said...

I'm told that results may take several days, based on past experience.

gewilli said...

now how am i not suprised at that!?

Oh well...

time to pull out the mantra:

"patience grasshopper"

"patience"

megA said...

hmmmm....i bet they hired a really lame ass results guy instead of my husband. . .too bad.

see you all soon!
m

Il Bruce said...

A gajillion years ago, when Jamestown was just a small (200 or so) citizen's race they had the placings done by eye.

They haddabunch of (3 or 4) people at the finish and said, "You pick first, you pick second" etc. I suggested that they have the first person pick 1-2-3. the second person pick 2-3-4 etc for a cros reference. I was told that they knew what they were doing.

What happened? Field sprint. Oh yeah they had the numbers on the back, across the shoulders.

Because I knew so many RI freds I was asked to look at a spectators video tape to help place about 100 riders. Sucked.